The Scranton Fringe Festival wants to help playwrights tackle timely issues at the festival in October.<\/p>\n
Four aspiring or emerging playwrights will have their work presented in staged readings at the festival. Applications for the Northeast PA Playwrights Incubator open Monday and close March 31.<\/p>\n
In This Together NEPA, a progressive advocacy group, is the founding sponsor.<\/p>\n
\u201cArtists are essential when our freedoms are threatened, and artists lead the way by uniting us and taking center stage to challenge injustice,\u201d Alisha Hoffman-Mirilovich, the group\u2019s executive director, said in a press release. \u201cLive theater provides the heartbeat of our local communities and connects neighbors.\u201d She is also executive director of a related group, Action Together NEPA.<\/p>\n
The festival is Oct. 1-10. Each year dozens of local and visiting performers and artists of all kinds put on shows around downtown.<\/p>\n
Each playwright will be paired with a mentor and be paid a stipend. The incubator is looking for aspiring playwrights or playwrights early in their careers, who live in Northeast Pennsylvania at least most of the year and are ready to propose a new script in development.<\/p>\n
Most of the work will be done virtually, with the program covering all the costs of gathering in Scranton for one weekend in July.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt its core, this incubator is about giving Northeast Pennsylvania writers a stronger voice, and real professional development opportunities, to take a new play from early pages to a living, breathing staged reading,\u201d Conor Kelly O\u2019Brien, executive director of Scranton Fringe, said in the press release.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThe mentorship and cohort support create a clear pathway forward, and the stipends are a fantastic resource to help playwrights carve out a bit more time to write, revise and deepen their practice.\u201d<\/p>\n
To apply, go to scrantonfringe.org<\/a>. The website for In This Together NEPA is Inthistogethernepa.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Scranton Fringe Festival wants to help playwrights tackle timely issues at the festival in October. Four aspiring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,51230,180,179],"class_list":["post-106222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-fringe-festival-announces-sponsorship-from-a-progressive-advocacy-group-to-mentor-playwrights","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}